Josh Mandel posts his campaign finance numbers, but one under-the-radar candidate continues to amass a huge campaign war chest. Marcia Fudge makes a list she'd probably rather not be on. And a Cincinnati Enquirer reporter searches for the next Ed FitzGerald. Read more in today's Ohio Politics Roundup, brought to you today by Andrew J. Tobias.

That includes $600,000 raised by Mandel's campaign committee. "Another $817,000 was raised by 'Team Josh,' Mandel's joint fundraising committee, Federal Election Commission records stated. Team Josh, in turn, gave $490,000 to his campaign committee, $193,000 to his political action committee JOSHPAC, and $72,000 to the Republican Party of Cuyahoga County Federal Campaign Committee," according to a Mandel spokesman.

During the same period, Brown's campaign committee alone collected $2.4 million. As Pelzer notes, it looks like it will be "another money-saturated campaign, as the two eye a rematch of the 2012 campaign."

Food for thought: U.S. Rep. Pat Tiberi, the Columbus-area congressman, himself reported raising nearly $1.4 million for the first quarter of 2017, according to FEC records. That means Tiberi, who also is considering running for the Republican Ohio U.S. Senate nomination in 2018, now has a whopping $6.3 million in cash on hand.

Among Tiberi's reported first-quarter expenditures: $42,250 on Jan. 17 for an Alexandra polling firm. That's the kind of thing -- public opinion polling more than a year away from the primary -- a candidate would do if gearing up for a protracted campaign.

More national speculation on Cordray: A report in Politico poses this provocative question about Richard Cordray, head of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and former Ohio attorney general: "Can the consumer watchdog Trump loathes win an Ohio election?"

The story, by Lorraine Woellert, Daniel Strauss and Ben White, says that whether or not President Donald Trump decides to fire Cordray, the Ohio Democrat "may already have enough political support to lead the field to replace Republican Gov. John Kasich in 2018." Trump has so far held off on dumping Cordray to avoid causing "a sensation that could boost his candidacy and juice his fundraising."

Renacci on Fox Business: During a Monday afternoon appearance on Fox Business, U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci said he's optimistic that the GOP-controlled Congress will be able to pull off both healthcare reform and tax reform.

"And as you heard the president say, it's a starting point for tax reform, which is another issue we have to get done. So I'm hoping that we get back, we get our feet on the ground running, and we do more than one thing," Renacci told host Stuart Varney.

Sherrod in Cleveland: Brown held a roundtable in Cleveland on Monday with auto workers during which he sought feedback on how he should seek to help Trump renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.

In a statement afterward, Brown said: "I'm ready to work with President Trump to deliver on his promises, or to hold him accountable if he doesn't."

She's on the list: U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge is on the list of witnesses that former Florida Rep. Corrine Brown may call to testify during her upcoming corruption trial, reports Roll Call's Eric Garcia.

Other possible witnesses include Rep. Bennie Thompson, of Mississippi, and Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee, of Texas.

"Brown is currently facing charges that she used funds from a non-profit called One Door on herself. Her former chief of staff Ronnie Simmons and Carla Wiley, the president of One Door, already pleaded guilty to fraud conspiracy charges."

Facebook killing response: Fudge, Brown and U.S. Sen. Rob Portman were among the public officials who issued "statements of concern for Cleveland residents and support for Cleveland police" in the aftermath of a video-recorded murder in the city, writes cleveland.com's Stephen Koff.

Calling all 'top Chicago gang thugs': Cleveland-area pastor the Rev. Darrell Scott plans a 10 a.m. news conference in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, after which he finally will meet with "some of Chicago's top street guys," according to Matt Sheldon, a rep for a New York public-relations company. The summit also will include officials with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

In February, Scott, who served as a top Trump campaign surrogate, made headlines when he said he planned to meet with some of Chicago's "top gang thugs." He later corrected himself, saying he meant "former thugs."

Green light: The Ohio legislature's Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review (or J-CARR, as it's known in Capitol Square) signed off on a set of medical-marijuana cultivation rules on Monday, writes cleveland.com's Jackie Borchardt.

The rules -- which will allow medical marijuana to be grown on up to 24 licensed sites statewide, and set some of the highest site fees in the country -- will take effect later this month.

State Rep. Candice Keller, who shared an Internet image saying that "one day we will look back at this" [a Planned Parenthood logo] "the same way we look back at this" [the Nazi flag], did not back down from her post, and in her statement to Balmert, in fact doubled down on the Nazi comparison.

What does House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger think? From his spokesman, Brad Miller: "Speaker Rosenberger understands that there is a lot of passion around the issue ... That being said, he does not believe that using such comparisons is an appropriate way to convey that passion or to advance the public discourse."

He's with her: Keller got backing from at least one corner. Mike Gonidakis, president of the anti-abortion group Ohio Right to Life, tweeted in response to the story: "It is an indisputable fact that both groups have killed millions of people."

In case you were wondering: Balmert also checked out the driving records of Ohio's slate of possible 2018 gubernatorial candidates. The most lengthy? Youngstown-area Sen. Joe Schiavoni has been involved in three crashes since 2007, has had four speeding tickets since 1999, "two seat-belt violations and four other traffic or equipment violations."

Cordray had "five speeding tickets since 1998,a 2006 violation for not using a turn signal and a 2004 violation for going the wrong way on a one-way road."

Meanwhile, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine's record doesn't show a single ticket or crash.